House Bill 0285

    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                 HB 285

        By Representative Chestnut






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to school performance; amending

  3         s. 229.57, F.S.; removing school discipline

  4         data from data used to determine a school's

  5         performance grade category; providing an

  6         effective date.

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  8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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10         Section 1.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (8) of section

11  229.57, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

12         229.57  Student assessment program.--

13         (8)  DESIGNATION OF SCHOOL PERFORMANCE GRADE

14  CATEGORIES.--School performance grade category designations

15  itemized in subsection (7) shall be based on the following:

16         (a)  Timeframes.--

17         1.  School performance grade category designations

18  shall be based on one school year of performance.

19         2.  In school years 1998-1999 and 1999-2000, a school's

20  performance grade category designation shall be determined by

21  the student achievement levels on the FCAT, and on other

22  appropriate performance data, including, but not limited to,

23  attendance, dropout rate, school discipline data, and student

24  readiness for college, in accordance with state board rule.

25         3.  Beginning with the 2000-2001 school year, a

26  school's performance grade category designation shall be based

27  on a combination of student achievement scores as measured by

28  the FCAT, on the degree of measured learning gains of the

29  students, and on other appropriate performance data,

30  including, but not limited to, attendance, dropout rate,

31  school discipline data, and student readiness for college.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2000                 HB 285

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  1         4.  Beginning with the 2001-2002 school year and

  2  thereafter, a school's performance grade category designation

  3  shall be based on student learning gains as measured by annual

  4  FCAT assessments in grades 3 through 10, and on other

  5  appropriate performance data, including, but not limited to,

  6  attendance, dropout rate, school discipline data, cohort

  7  graduation rate, and student readiness for college.

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  9  For the purpose of implementing ss. 229.0535 and 229.0537, if

10  any of the four schools that were identified as critically low

11  performing, based on both 1996-1997 and 1997-1998 school

12  performance data and state board adopted criteria, receives a

13  performance grade category designation of "F," based on

14  1998-1999 school performance data, that school shall be

15  considered as having failed to make adequate progress for 2

16  years in a 4-year period. All other schools that receive a

17  performance grade category designation of "F," based on

18  1998-1999 school performance data, shall be considered as

19  having failed to make adequate progress for 1 year.

20         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2000.

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23                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Removes school discipline data from data used to
25    determine a school's performance grade category.

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